THe Catholic Church gave us the Bible?

I. Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?
There are four major reasons for affirming that the Catholic Church gave us the Bible:
1. The New Testament was written by the Church. The Books of the New Testament were written by Apostles and other leading clergymen within the Church. Recall 1 Corinthians 12:28,... show more I. Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?

There are four major reasons for affirming that the Catholic Church gave us the Bible:

1. The New Testament was written by the Church. The Books of the New Testament were written by Apostles and other leading clergymen within the Church. Recall 1 Corinthians 12:28, “And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.”

2. The New Testament was written to the Church. Just as the Old Testament was written to Israel, the New Testament is written to the Church. We see this most clearly in the Epistles, which tend to be addressed either to a particular church leader (Philemon 1:1, etc.), or a local church (1 Corinthians 1:2, etc.) or a particular group of Christians (1 Peter 1-2, etc.) or the entire Church (Jude 1:1).

3. Both the Old and New Testament were compiled by the Church. Without the Church, you don’t have a clear way of knowing which Books belong in the Bible and which don’t. As a matter of history, the Catholic Church gave us the Bible.

4. The establishment of the Church is mentioned in Scripture. Matthew 16:17-19 . Jesus set up a Church, . One of the ways that the Church fulfilled this commission was by creating the Bible, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

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I. Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?

One (biased) interpretation of the historical facts results in the answer "Yes".
Other interpretations of the historical facts (equally biased OR unbiased) results in the answer "No" or "Not alone".

1a. The New Testament was written by the Church.

The New Testament was authored by individual Christians
- not by "the Church"
- and not by "the Roman Catholic Church"

1b) The Books of the New Testament were written by Apostles and other leading clergymen within the Church.

Not by "clergymen" in the sense that the word is normally used.
All of the authors were Christians, but none refer by name to the Roman Catholic Church.

1c) Recall 1 Corinthians 12:28, “And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.”

Here (as always in the New Testament), the word "church" has the meaning "congregation" and not "denomination"...and certainly not "the Roman Catholic Church".

2a. The New Testament was written to the Church.

Over-simple. See - for an obvious counter-example - The Epistle to the Hebrews.

2b) Just as the Old Testament was written to Israel, the New Testament is written to the Church. We see this most clearly in the Epistles, which tend to be addressed either to a particular church leader (Philemon 1:1, etc.), or a local church (1 Corinthians 1:2, etc.) or a particular group of Christians (1 Peter 1-2, etc.) or the entire Church (Jude 1:1).

See 2a)
Also: you assume that "the Church" is the Roman Catholic Church - but none of those documents attest so.

3a. Both the Old and New Testament were compiled by the Church.

Again: we have you assuming (in a retroactive way, called a "retcon" in comics) that some "the Church" existed at that time, and it was the Roman Catholic Church in particular.
One can equally well (in an equally biased and retroactive way) argue that "the Church" that did that was the Eastern Orthodox Church
or the Oriental Orthodox Church
or the Church of the East
etc.

The UNbiased characterization is that this was done by Christian officials of the 4th century at a few councils and synods
- some of those held in Greek-speaking territory (that is: traditionally, but not yet at that time, Eastern Orthodox)
- some of those held in Latin-speaking territory (that is: traditionally, but not yet at that time, Roman Catholic)

In any case, one cannot REASONABLY credit solely the Roman Catholic Church.

3b. Without the Church, you don’t have a clear way of knowing which Books belong in the Bible and which don’t.

The fact that practically all non-Catholic Christians disagree with the particular set of documents that Roman Catholics have chosen to include in their Bibles proves that practically all Christians DO have "a clear way of knowing" that and have chosen a clear way OTHER than the way chosen by Roman Catholics.

3c) As a matter of history, the Catholic Church gave us the Bible.

As a matter of ***a biased interpretation of history***
not as a matter of **the bare historical facts** (which do not refer to the Roman Catholic Church in particular).

4a. The establishment of the Church is mentioned in Scripture. Matthew 16:17-19

Yes, but what "the Church"?
Again: you mistake the word "church" to mean "denomination"
and assume that it refers specifically to the Roman Catholic Church.
Both are logical errors.

4b) Jesus set up a Church, . One of the ways that the Church fulfilled this commission was by creating the Bible, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Did you read that passage?
Did you read the commission given by Jesus?
Do you even know what the word "commission" means?
Clearly the Bible does not fulfill the commission given in that passage, and clearly it was not designed to do so.

NO.... The True Church, commissioned by The Creator God, is NOT the papist catholic......

.The Apostles were long dead by the time the papist, so-called catholic, church got started.... and The Creator God had nothing to do with starting that........so none of The Apostles was "catholic"...... the papist did gather several collections of early writings containing some history of The Nation of Israel... and some of The Instruction of God to those of The True Church He commissioned after Jesus Ascended into Heaven......and the papists also made up many more.... and distorted some of the older writings to fit their agenda.....

all of that without any authority from God to do so.....

the papist called the resulting work the bible.....

there continued to be those of The True Church who did not accept the papist deceptions.... and eventually those of The True Church began to strip away the papist deceptions and publish a Bible closer to the original instruction of God..... but not all of the original instructions have survived.......

just because the papists compiled the first collection... and called it the bible.... does not make it The Instruction of God...... The papist deception remains just that

The rest of the story is quite lengthy and best not gone into on forums like YA

Source(s): GOD gave HIS children the bible.
some need to stop placing all their faith in a church. (we are the church) - all believers are.
CHRIST is head of us all. if not , there is a problem in ones faith.